Captivate 4 publishing issue?--very strange results with embedded swfs

I have a captivate file with some swf's created in flash, and some simple swf's created in Captivate 4. When I publish, the swf's created in Flash pause if you pause the player, but the captivate published swfs do not. Also, I have a captivate published swf playing on my 3rd slide, and on the first slide in playback, you can hear a mouse click, like the flash has already started playing. And sure enough when you get to the 3rd slide, the flash is in the middle of playing. I have "sync to project" checked on all of them. Is this a bug with captivate?? please help!

Hi there,
Just to add to Michael's excellent post. I would suggest that you check to see what the frame rate in Flash is set to. When inserting SWF animations into Captivate you need to make sure that your Flash projects (SWFs) have a frame rate of 30 fps.
Another option would be to create test SWF in Flash using AS3 and insert this into a Captivate AS3 project. To set your Captivate project to AS 3 carry out the following steps:
1. Choose Edit > Preferences
2. Select the Publish Settings category of the Project preferences
3. Choose AS3
4. Click OK.
Next, publish your CP file as a SWF (externalizing the animations as Michael suggested) and see if that makes any difference.
Best - Mark
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